The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-10-14

TEE mills OF the Bloomington (IlL) Roller
Mill Company, together with granaries con-
tanning 5000 bushels of wheat, were
burned the other morning. Loss, $4,000;
nearly covered with insurance. The fire ID
supposed to have originated in the dust
room.
Governor MooSLIaHT, Of Wyoming,
estimates the population Of that Territory
at 5000.
AN excursion train from st. Louis to
Belleville, Ill, late the other night ran on
to an open switch near the latter place and
barely escaped being wrecked.
EDWARD and Thomas Moran, brothers, OF
Ardak, Oak, were found asphyxiated by
gas in a Chicago hotel the other day.
BRITISH syndicate, which recently
bought large tract of land from the Nc.
Gregor & Western Railroad Company, OF
Iowa, is accused of heartless eviction OF
squatters.
The schooner Jesse Scarth, laden with
26. 600, bushels of corn from Chicago, bound
for Toronto, sank In forty fathoms of water
eight miles north of Manistee, Mich, the
other night. Captain Roberts and the
crew reached the shore in safety.
CHARLES DOLL, ex-member OF the board
of public works of Cincinnati, has been SEN
fenced to two years in the penitentiary,
upon conviction Of having misapplied city
funds in the purchase of a lot Of horses in
Illinois for the city's use.
DOUGLAS Il STEWARDS oatmeal mill at
Cedar Rapids, Ia, was destroyed recently.
Loss, SIPS 600; insured, $4,000.
HENRY c. BURNETT, formerly OF Leaven-
worth, Kan, has been made warden Of the
New Mexico penitentiary, vice Thomas r.
Gable, retired.
FIRE in the lumber districts of Menomi-
nee, Mich, the other night destroyed 6.OOO,
OOO feet Of lumber, causing $lOO, 600 loss.
THERE was an immense crush at the re-
ception to the President in Chicago on the
5,h. The grand procession was series OF
ovations.
By the explosion Of boiler in David
Young's sawmill, near Amanda, o., recent
", George Lape, Simon Young and Amos
Young were instantly killed and Mrs. Simon
Young was seriously injureR The cause
was unknown.
THREE unknown young men went boating
on the lake near Chicago the other day. At
the foot of Monroe street they attempted to
change seats, when the boat tipped over
and all three were drowned.
The Northwestern Freight Bureau rail-
roads have decided to continue the organi-
cation regardless of the Withdrawals Of
several lines.
The Glow Nolan prize fight near Cincin-
natl was stopped by the sheriff recently,
after one round had been fought, Both
combatants were arrested.
The National Exposition opened in Kan
sas City, No., on the 9th, to close November
Is Major Warner, representing the dis
;cC ali bo ,ov,ir tyQ n.
dress.
The Farmers Alliance closed its annual
session at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 5th
and adjourned to meet next gear in Des
Moines. The following officers were elect
ed: President, j. Burrows, of Nebraska
vice-presdent, ex-senator l.. D. Whiting,
of Illinois; secretary, August Post, Of
Iowa; treasurer, j. j. FurlOng, of Mime.
sofa; lecturer, A. D. Chase, of Dakota.
The tug Orient, owned at Fairhaven,
Mich, was lost in Lake Eric recently and
her crew of six men drowned.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND reached Milwau'
kee, Wis, on the 9th, where he received an
| ovation He was welcomed by Mayor Wall
| Der, and in response expressed himself as
much charmed with the place and its PEG.
pie.
HORACE BRowNELL, aged fifty-five, cross
| ingkeeper on the Wisconsin Central rail
| way near Pewaukee, Wis.,, was assassi
mated the other night by unknown per
| sons.
| OK complaint Of w. J. Hawk, of Buffalo
Division Superintendent Graham of the
Dakota Division of the Northern Pacific al
Fargo, d. T., has been arrested, charged
with violating the Interstate Commerce
act in refusing to furnish cars for the ship
ment of wheat and discriminating in favor
of the elevator companies.
| In a fight in the Choctaw Nation the
other day between a United States mar
sbars posse and William Frazier. an out
law, Deputy Abe Barhill was shot three
times, and it is reported that the desperate
| was killed.